Daily Archives: March 10, 2016


Wednesday, March 16, 10:00 am – A Visit to ‘Les Quatres Vents’: Frank Cabot’s Quebec Garden

Frank Cabot, founder of the Garden Conservancy, was a plant collector of the first order. At the Garden Club of the Back Bay’s March meeting on March 16 at 10 am, Sally Muspratt will present an illustrated lecture of his showcase Quebec garden, which she revisited in May, 2015. The meeting will held at The College Club of Boston, 44 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. Garden Club members will receive written notice of the meeting, which will be followed by an optional lunch.

Sally McGuire Muspratt holds a Graduate Certificate in Landscape Design from Radcliffe College (1993), a certificate in Landscape Maintenance from UMass Extension (2002), an M.A. from Newnham College, Cambridge and a BA from Harvard. In 2010 she was accredited as an Organic Land Care Professional by the Northeast Organic Farming Association, and in 2011 as a Professional Landscape Designer by the APLD, the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (certification #344).

Sally gardens in West Roxbury, MA and La Malbaie, Quebec. She serves on the Board of the Arboretum Park Conservancy and on the advisory committees of The Kelleher Rose Garden and the Park Overseers of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy. She is past President of the Board of Cogdesign, past Chairman of the Landscape Design Study Classes, the Landscape Design Council of the National Council of State Garden Clubs, and the Civic Development Committee for the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts. If you are not a member but wish to attend please email info@gardenclubbackbay.org.


Through March 18 – Bulb Show

Come and get inspired for spring with the Bulb Show at the Berkshire Botanical Garden, now through March 18. The show, which is housed in the restored Fitzpatrick Greenhouse, is free to the public and open Monday through Friday from 9 am to 4 pm. It is also an ideal opportunity to order bulbs as part of the Garden’s annual Bulb Sale for planting the following fall.